On Wednesday 11 January 2006 13:24, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> In the VGA console, all buffers, including scrollback is in video RAM, but
> the size is fixed and is very small.
I wonder if that can be fixed.
> With the framebuffer console, you can increase the size of the scrollback
> buffer with the boot option:
>
> fbcon=scrollback:<n> (default is 32K)
On x86-64 vesafb is unusable slow because it does CPU scrolling cause
it can't use the vesa BIOS - and the others don't work everywhere. So I don't
think fbcon is an usable replacement.
-Andi
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